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Viktoriapark, Kreuzberg - In A Berlin Minute (Week 125)

Viktoriapark, Kreuzberg - In A Berlin Minute (Week 125) from Luci Westphal on Vimeo.Viktoriapark is an urban park, which opened in the Kreuzberg neighborhood in 1894.Its significant sights are the monument (designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel) on top of the hill commemorating the liberation war during the Napoleonic Wars in and the artificial waterfall cascading down the same hill.The park is also popular for its high views of Berlin, sunset lawns and, of course, a beer garden.
My personal favorite is the statue "Der Seltene Fang" ("The Rare Haul") by Ernst Herter, which I'd consider the sexiest statue I've seen in Berlin so far. Although I'm curious if others can be suggested. The other two statues featured I'd like to call the zombie and the vampire (Friedrich Rückert, Heinrich von Kleist and/or Ludwig Uhland - jury is still out which one is which).
The beautiful music is called "Swinging Senses" by my friend Cassis & The Sympathies. Check out her music website: http://www.filmmusicvision.com
I'm dedicating this video to my friends Erni (aka HammerharterErni) and Digilinus, who have been through a lot lately and have been so gracious to me. Stay strong, Digi. Bleib stark, Erni.

This very limited-run calendar is not for sale! Instead, I would like to gift it to the first 5 people who pledge their support for my work through Patreon - and to the kind people who are already Patreon supporters. Deadline: January 7th, 2017.

All you have to do is pledge your support on my Patreon page: Patreon.com/LuciWest (for as low as $1 a month). You can cancel anytime. By being a patron you will get other early and even exclusive content and gifts...

If you're already supporting my work through Patreon, just send me a message that you'd like a calendar. If you're one of the first 5 people to respond, I'll send one your way.

The Moving Postcard World Travel Map is not just any kind of map, it's a world scratch-off map... that my dear friendJudith Hecktorgave me earlier this year. I had been waiting for just the right time to shoot a time-lapse video for you to show you all the countries where I've shot Moving Postcard videos in chronological order...

As you see when watching the video, it's not just a time-lapse video of me scratching off the countries and flags on the world travel map, but also a quick glimpse of a video from each of the 11 countries I visited (or lived in) during the 6 1/2 years of publishing Moving Postcard videos every week.
If you would like to see more 1-minute videos from these 11 countries, please check out the respective collections:Germany,Spain,USA,Czech Republic,Portugal,Thailand,United Kingdom,Brazil,Poland,Mexico, andCuba.
Thank you so much, Judith, for this awesome map. You sure know how to find amazing and meaningf…

There's nothing quite like a German Christmas Market (Weihnachtsmarkt).
And the Hamburg Christmas Market is probably my favorite. It's the
Weihnachtsmarkt of my childhood and probably the only one that serves
Fischbrötchen (fish on a roll).

This video of the Hamburg Christmas Market, I filmed last week at two
different markets that are near each other: the Weisser Zauber at
Jungfernstieg (on the Alster River) and the Hamburger Weihnachtsmarkt at
the Rathausmarkt (city hall square). I filmed this video before the attack on the Berlin Christmas Market.

For
several days, I contemplated if I should publish this video at all - in
the aftermath of such a tragedy. Then it became obvious: of course, I
would publish a German Christmas Market video this week! As a matter of
fact, by now I feel lucky that I had filmed such a video during my trip
back home to Germany so I could take a stand this week. It's very
importa…

The Hotel Nacional de Cuba and the Plaza de la Revolución are two of the
main sights worth visiting in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
In Vedado, you will also find the Cristóbal Colón Cemetery (check out my
video "Cristóbal Colón Cemetery, Havana (Cuba) – In Another Minute (317)") and the Afro-Cuban mecca of street art and culture Callejón de Hamel, which I might feature in another video...

In this week's video, I'd like to take you on a bit of a visual tour
of history. We start at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba (built in 1930),
drive a Cuban classic car taxi past a mural depicting the travel of the Granma yacht
(that brought the revolutionaries, including the Castro brothers,
Guevara and Cienfuegos, to Cuba in 1956 to overthrow the Batista regime)
and end at the Plaza de la Revolución, completed in 1959, the year
Fidel Castro came to power.